Arthur Plotnik

Contributor, TMR

Arthur Plotnik writes on expressive language. He is the author of eight books including two Book-of-the-Month-Club selections and his new Better Than Great: A Plenitude of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives (Viva Editions, June 2011). A board member of The Writer magazine, he lives in Chicago, where he worked as a publishing executive for the American Library Association.

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